Jiang Min threw the city trough transfer envoy to Bailiyan, just to train a team of men and horses, train soldiers while suppressing bandits, and let Jiang Min have two more soldiers out of thin air, and he will not lose money inside and outside.

In addition, the transfer envoys also have the administrative power to directly cross the border without notifying the localities, and it will also be very convenient to detect the movement of the surrounding Xian troops in the future.

But if he wants to go to work within five days, he obviously thinks that the bandits' nest has been terminated, and the suppression of bandits should come to an end, which makes Bailiyan feel strange.

It's not that five days is too short, in fact, I can go to work tomorrow. The five days were given to fully consider that there was still a lot of aftermath work in the deserted village. But five days is obviously too late to complete all the aftermath, not to mention that Huo Xing and the others are still at large, and it may not be possible to find Huo Xing's whereabouts in five days and annihilate his cadres.

Jiang Min is so anxious to go to his post, is he excusing Huo Xing? Five days is neither long nor short, and even if it is not rushed, it also gives room for maneuver, but it is not easy to make people suspicious. But this little time was not enough to hit Huo Xing.

Thinking of this, Bai Liyan didn't ask much, Chen Yunfeng was a smart person, and asking too much would make him suspicious.

Not long after sending Chen Yunfeng away, the Yuke Eyeline lurking in Dingyang City sent back the news that Guo Peng secretly contacted a suspicious person, most likely Huo Xing, who was hiding in an inn in Dingyang City at this time.

"It's really him!" Fang De slammed his fist on the table and concluded that Guo Peng was Huo Xing's employer.

At this time, Tang Zhao said worriedly:

It makes sense to say that Wei Langzhong offended Guo Peng in order to save the Guile Fang woman, and then he attracted the disaster of killing. It's just that this Guo Peng is Guo Pan's son, and it is very involved to move him. ”

"This kind of scum breeds horse thieves and does all kinds of evil, and if they don't punish him, heaven will not tolerate it."

Song Jie was determined to kill Guo Peng, and Fang De said again:

"It's weird."

"What's wrong?" Tang Zhao said.

"You think, how old is Guo Peng, he is only twenty-one years old, this Huo Xing has been rampant in the local area for seven or eight years, and Guo Peng was only old seven or eight years ago."

"Could that be Guo Pan, the eunuch." Song Jie guessed.

"Guo Pan was also appreciated by the Queen Mother four or five years ago, and seven or eight years ago he was just a small palace official, and in terms of time, it can't be right."

"Brother Fang De is right." At this time, Bai Liyan entered the house and continued: "Guo Pan and Guo Peng really shouldn't be the ultimate employers of horse thieves. ”

"How can Wei Langzhong see it?"

Tang Zhao asked, and Bai Liyan answered:

"Guo Pan is already a celebrity in front of the Queen Mother, and there is no one in the inner palace below 10,000 people, so why should Guo Pan privately make a strong crossbow. Besides, he is a eunuch and has no martial talents, so he will not kill himself at the risk of such a big crime. ”

"Who could it be?"

Tang Zhao pondered hard, and Bai Liyan said:

"This matter is no longer important at the moment, the top priority is to catch Huo Xing in order to learn the inside story."

"Then Guo Peng, this thief, will make him unable to survive." Song Jieyin was a little angry, in his opinion, all those involved in the case, especially those who started the case like Guo Peng, should be brought to justice, even if it was an extrajudicial execution.

If it weren't for Huo Xing's private crossbow, Bai Liyan originally planned to kill Guo Peng Liwei by the hand of Yuke, but now he killed Guo Peng, but he felt that it was too smooth, and it seemed to be developing according to the script.

It can be imagined that if Guo Peng is killed and the horse thief knows the news, can Huo Xing still stay in Dingyang City? It is likely that he will flee overnight and will not even think about revenge again. Because the employer is dead, there is no need to sell his life. Perhaps the real culprit behind the scenes is waiting for Guo Peng to be killed, and once Guo Peng dies, he can destroy the corpse and disappear invisibly

persuaded Song Jie and others not to kill Guo Peng, and everyone was still helpless on how to find the horse thief.

Huo Xing should be hiding in Dingyang City just for the convenience of contact, and his team must not be in the city, otherwise they are all hiding in one place, and if Guo Peng turns against the water, it is very likely that Huo Xing will be wiped out.

That night, in an inconspicuous inn in the west of Dingyang City, Huo Xing was furious after learning that the old nest had been terminated, and wanted to use wine to dispel his sorrows. Just after two bowls of rice wine, there was a knock on the door from the guest room. Huo Xing shouted dishappily:

"Is it really the wind in the ears of Lao Tzu's words, get out!"

The voice fell, and he suddenly pushed inward, and a strong man in gray stood outside the door with a calm expression and said:

"Brother Huo, why should he be like this."

"It's you!" Huo Xing's face changed suddenly: "Tell me quickly, what does the shopkeeper command." ”

The strong man closed the wooden door casually, sat opposite Huo Xing, found a clean pottery bowl, poured half a bowl of old wine and was thirsty.

"The shopkeeper asked me to come and tell Brother Huo that Guo Peng's head is about to move, so you will go south tomorrow to join the caravan and go to Guangxin for delivery."

"I'm going to Guangxin in person? Isn't this self-defeating! Huo Xing said worriedly.

"Definitely. As long as Brother Huo doesn't come out of the house and lets Niu Gui and Wu Shan continue to disguise caravans to and from various places, no one would have thought that Brother Huo would hide in Guangxin City. ”

"It's good to be so good, but how can there be the joy of gathering in the mountains and forests. It's hateful that the demon doctor surnamed Wei, I don't know what demon method to use to find the cave, and sweep away the cave that I have worked hard to manage for many years, which is really hateful. ”

Since it was rumored in Guangxin City that Baili Yan was selling ice, there were rumors in the market that some people had given the indecent nickname "demon doctor", which became a typical derogatory term in Huo Xing's mouth. Any phenomenon that cannot be understood is considered to be some kind of mysterious magic.

Then the strong man said:

"Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, so why should Brother Huo be obsessed with this defeat. What's more, Brother Huo's elite still exists, and when he makes a comeback in time, he will still be a well-known hero. Come, Gao will give Brother Huo another drink. ”

"Okay,!"

The two of them drank it all, Huo Xinggang wanted to say something, and suddenly felt a heart-wrenching stomach ache, and he shouted:

"Ah......h......h Wine, wine has... Poison ......"

The man surnamed Gao smiled coldly:

"Before the wine was delivered, chronic poison was put into it, Brother Huo, rest in peace, someone Gao will find you a feng shui treasure to bury Brother Huo, and you can vote for a good family in the next life."

"You ......"

Huo Xing wanted to point to the man surnamed Gao, but finally gradually lost consciousness under the abdominal pain of turning over the river and the sea, and waited until the limbs were limpable, and after another tea time, the man surnamed Gao measured Huo Xing's snort with his hand, made sure that he had lost his breath, extinguished the oil lamp casually, opened the door and disappeared into the path behind the inn.

Two days later, in the early morning, the news that Huo Xing had died of poisoning in the Dingyang City Inn reached the deserted village, and Baili Yan had just finished examining Tang Zhao's wounds.

"What, dead!" Bai Liyan was taken aback and said, "When did you die?"

"It was already afternoon when I found out about the poisoning, and it would take a whole night for the news to spread from Dingyang City to Lincheng."

Tang Zhao said quickly, and Bai Liyan said in a deep voice:

"It's so fast."

"Did Guo Peng do it?"

"No, not really. If Guo Peng wants to kill, he should not only kill Huo Xing, but must kill the leader of the horse thieves in one net, otherwise if he escapes, he will be killed.

The person who poisoned Huo Xing will definitely be able to control all the horse thieves after Huo Xing's death. Although Guo Peng is ruthless and has some city government, he is very close to horse thieves, and it is difficult to control all horse thieves, not to mention that this horse thief is halfway to Guo Peng, and it is impossible for Guo Peng to be installed by Guo Peng. ”

Huo Xing's death was really unexpected, as soon as Huo Xing died, the contact between Guo Peng and the horse thieves under Huo Xing was broken, and the contact was broken, and it was difficult to find out this horse thief. But after thinking about it carefully, I felt that Huo Xing's death was strange.

Why was Huo Xing poisoned in Dingyang City in the end, instead of Niu Gui, the second master, and Wu Shan, the third family? Why does the driving force behind the scenes have to sacrifice the big boss Huo Xing?

In other words, the real behind-the-scenes promoter had already secretly bribed other thieves behind Huo Xing's back, and when Huo Xing died, it was logical to shift the focus of public opinion, and even eventually became the destruction of the horse thief's lair, the horse thief killed the bandit leader Huo Xing due to uneven internal stolen goods, and the horse thief finally became a bird and beast and so on.

And the direct contact who has surfaced before Huo Xing's death is Guo Peng, and the person who can deduce this should be the only one who can deduce this, except for Guangxin Gong Jiang Min, Chen Yunfeng and others.

And now, Jiang Min should have nothing to do with the horse thief, and Chen Yunfeng's tone is not abnormal, so from the beginning, the horse thief's attack on the deserted village was the script directed by the person behind the scenes, and even Guo Peng instructed Huo Xing to attack and disturb the deserted village, this behind-the-scenes promoter should know.

In order to get rid of Guo Peng, he deliberately watched the fire from the other side, so as to pass on the special relationship between Huo Xing and Guo Peng to himself in a more obscure way, so that he could kill people with a knife without offending Guo Pan.

At this time, Baili Yan suddenly caused a shiver, and a chill in the center of his feet rushed to the heavens, making people's backs cold.

"It's really a good idea."

He said softly, and Tang Zhao asked puzzledly:

"What does Wei Langzhong mean, what did he think of?"

"Brother Tang Zhao, where do you say the horse thief is safest to hide?"

"Of course, it's safest to hide outside Beihai County."

"Really?" Asked Tang Zhao rhetorically, Bai Liyan squatted on a white cloth with an oil lamp, and said: "Brother Tang, look at the cloth, where is the brightest and where is the darkest." ”

Tang Zhao pointed to the vicinity of the oil lamp and said:

"The lamp base is the darkest, and the brightest is outside the lamp base." As soon as the words fell, Tang Zhao was stunned: "It's dark under the light!" ”

"Yes, but it's not."

Although Guo Peng is arrogant and arrogant, it is not possible for ordinary people to kill him, even if he is the driving force behind the scenes, he does not dare to kill him in a grand manner, but he has to borrow Bailiyan's hand to achieve the goal of killing Guo Peng.

From this point of view, this person at least belongs to the category of dignitaries, and at the same time, killing Guo Peng can get huge benefits, because Guo Peng is Guo Pan's godson, and to put it more bluntly, Guo Peng is Guo Pan's spokesperson for his interests in Beihai County, and Beihai County is the richest in Guangxin except for Dingyang City, and the degree of wealth is far above Dingyang City.

And Guo Peng's purpose in Guangxin is undoubtedly to sell inferior goods, and with Guo Peng in charge, no one dares to touch the profiteers controlled by Guo Peng and Zhang He.

But if Guo Peng died, Zhang He would inevitably retreat. Guo and Zhang withdrew from Guangxin, and the unscrupulous businessmen who secretly operated in Guangxin had no backers, and they could only withdraw from Guangxin with each other.

As a result, the local market of inferior goods that had collapsed before, due to the withdrawal of Guo and Zhang from Guangxin's territory, naturally gave up the share that had been defeated.

The market is affected by inferior goods, and needs to be supplemented by new sources, and who has such great financial resources, who is the biggest beneficiary, looking at it, the whole city can call the wind and rain in addition to Guangxin Gong Jiang Min, and the rest is only the richest man Qin Han.